A field of grain ripening under the Columbia Basin sun in an irrigated field near Moses Lake in early June 2021. Most of the small grain acres grown in Eastern Washington are not irrigated, and the continuing drought has left much of the region’s dry farmed soil drier than usual, according to USDA.
April 5, 2022
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April 5, 2022 4:50 p.m.
USDA Says National, Regional Grain Stocks Down
OLYMPIA — Grain stocks in the Pacific Northwest are half of what they were last year, while a lack of soil moisture in portions of Adams County does not bode well for this year’s winter wheat crop, according to a pair of reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistic Service.